Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:16 - Intro: Commit or Validate? 00:26 - Situation #1 00:53 - Situation #2 02:45 - Product To Market 03:07 - Trust Your Gut 04:06 - Trust Your Gut 05:22 - Don't Trust Your Gut 06:03 - Building Expertise 06:49 - Example #1 07:51 - Example #2 08:38 - Expertise Levels 09:37 - Team With No Expertise 10:35 - Our Advice 11:42 - Outro: Why its fun working at YC?

I'm a simple guy. I see Dalton and Michael in the same thumbnail, I click.

What Michael said at 8:55 touched me so deeply. Having deep expertise in something does sometimes makes me feel alien to the other people in my field; makes me want to trust my gut a little less and listen to others a little more. Watching this video has been very helpful. Although I do not plan to cut back on the conversations I have with the customers, I will just trust myself more. And ask questions like "Would I have liked this product?" to myself. I am a part of my target audience and if I use my own tool a lot for my work, there will be others like me out there who would love it as much as I do.

I thought I was building an MVP two years ago. I was so sure of it. An MVP doesn't take two years to build 😔 I was "trying to impress myself, not the customer"...

When I decided to leave my salary job as a mechanical engineer in 2020 and to become a self entrepreneur in IT without knowing precisely in which field I decide to BUILD EXPERTISE. It is one of the more important decision of my life because in this path I've acquired expertise not only in IT, but also in civil engineering where I've build a company and earn a lot of money and had very good experiences. Today I've learned a lot in web3 technology and I'm almost a deFi engineer. I really think sometimes, it's important to trust our gut, it's not going to be easy, with a lot of hardwork, consistency, patience if we've time and a little bit of madness we can accomplish much more than what we think.

Short: Depends. Be self aware enough to trust your gut based on your domain knowledge/experience. You're not Steve Jobs. Maximize optimal success probability by learning, listening and working smart, and hard AF.

"Maybe it's helpful to choose an area that you are excited to learn about, because you have a lot of learning to do" Great advice this 💯

Dalton & Michael be so spot-on - I'm literally afraid to watch the video and get put out of my misery on some those topics. Thank you!

Great episode gentlemen! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video, this solved lots of vision issues regarding launching my new platform. Hoping to represent my scale up ready module soon... A big thanks again...❤

Amazing. This is the advice I needed to hear! Trusting my gut has been so difficult but I have no doubt -- just intense pressure.

This is my favorite video yet

The exact situation you are speaking of here 6:53. I’m living it. Wow!

knowing when to seek feedback and trust your instincts is crucial for founders. One advanced tactic is to use the '5 Whys' method when making decisions; it helps you get to the root of a problem quickly and can be a great way to validate your gut feeling with some logical structure. Plus, always remember to balance feedback with your vision, as too much external input can dilute your original idea.

applied to yc hope so things get positive

I keep coming back to pg essays on building something you find painful in your life. Then your gut and at least. your tastes will know for a fact if your product is bs or not

Excellent advice. It makes me wonder about the limits of relying on self-percieved expertise. If a person were to have countless years of experience in an industry, should they "trust their gut" by spending years building a product? While having that industry experience of course means a fairly fitting solution and likely a better appreciation of what's needed to succeed, the transition from employee to founder (especially in terms of marketing and sales) seems a tad more arduous. That is, taking too much time without validation is risky for several reasons despite having experience. Something else to consider is whether iterating slower is even an advantage for those who don't need feedback/iteration as badly, since the conclusion of the video seems to be that this is a sort of way optimize time spent based on actual expertise. This likely depends on the industry, but even when iteration is expensive it allows for quicker development in general (faster iterations of finetuning models means more learnt from actual results, though the cost of additional finetuning is higher). And as I mentioned before, there seems to be lots of other factors at play besides PMF in order to succeed. If the iteration would only aid PMF rather than other processes anyways, then the downsides of avoiding iteration are mitigated. Additionally, a confident founder could specifically focus on iterating and getting feedback in every area besides the product, which seems like a pretty valuable option. Don't take this as a validated assertion or anything, just thought that commenting might help me better digest the video. I may have also exaggerated their argument out of proportion in regards to the extremity of action to take based on whether or not you should "trust your gut".

Helpful, thank you

My app is something I want to use and Im sure others will too.

Helpful video

Perfect timing with this one. Just the validation i didn't even know i needed to hear.

Thank you very much it was interesting as always ⭐

Great

The founder with expertise is more fearful while the founder without any expertise is confident enough. 8:43

But on wikipedia is information that Michael Seibel left Y Combinator in march 2024. Is it old video?

I love to see Dalton having social anxiety. Just like me

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Hey you can created contain in Q.S.R

4:10 Make something that impresses you is my choice. The product , the philosophy and the value will shine through it.

did dalton just say "Mid" haha

0:10 hi😅

First comment 😊

There is an objective issue when you know you're building something customers want, but investors don't like it (too hardware, to niche, not AI blabla), so you get in a chicken/egg situation.

dalton is looking hot with this hairstyle... just gotta say it.

Aren't gut bacteria responsible for aging?

Trust my gut not to trust this discussion bout trusting gut

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Great